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• Thursday, November 29, 2007 08:49 AM

  Ron Paul on the environment

  Ron Paul is an early, before his time, signal of how the country is reacting to the two party system. His ideas are going to gain more and more attention and support, although he is not the candidate that can truly gain enough support to get to the white house. He does, however, have the integrity and honesty we are looking for. What we need is a candidate that shares many of Paul's beliefs and understands how to communicate how we can get from where we are now to where we need to be in a realistic, practical manner. There have to be intermediate steps that a wider segment of the population can get behind in order to gain real acceptance. What we need now is a redefining of what "conservative" really means. Unfortunately, it has been defined so much around religion and abortion that it has this negative aura that just turns people off. If conservatives could somehow stop focusing so hard on abortion and start focusing on shrinking the size, power and role of the Federal government, dramatically cutting taxes and stop our foreign policy of intervention and regime change/tampering, then we could really get a powerful and popular message of what it really means to be a conservative. With the exception of Ron Paul, there are no other conservatives on the Republican list of candidates. Politicians use taxes to buy votes and that simply isn't what conservatives should be about.

  —mslkauai Read mslkauai's other letters
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